kinetograph

After years of experimentation, Edison patented a movie camera called the Kinetograph in 1897.

The point was for Edison to showcase his lab’s glorious new invention: the kinetograph.

“That was fun. Any questions for me? The inventor of the kinetograph?”

He also takes us into the 1890s studio of Thomas Edison, who worked on his kinetograph movie camera and kinetoscope peep-show box.

Men who make movies have been saying such things to the women who appear in them since Thomas Edison patented the Kinetograph, and not a few of the all-time great directors are among them; ask the ghost of any given hat-check girl in a Howard Hawks picture.